Easy Things Quotes

• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

  Rick Warren

  Leader, Easy, Hard

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 29, 2012

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• A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Easy, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule for Making Decisions”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Thinking, Cost, Want

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

  Aeschylus

  Feet, Giving, Advice

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1956). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

  Martina McBride

  Careers, Important, Use

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• I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Thinking, Venus

  "AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2010.

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• Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Letting Go, Past, Survivor

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.69, Delacorte Press

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• Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

  George C. Lorimer

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Putting Things Off

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together.
  It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

  Ariel Sharon

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  The Times, November 5, 2002.

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• What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Change, Trust, God

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• Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

  Philip Neri

  Sweet, Angel, Thinking

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.48, St Athanasius Press

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• It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

  John Toshack

  Men, Easy, Holes

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• Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Fighting, Controversial Topics, Two

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• Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Procrastination, Literature

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• I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

  Hulk Hogan

  Giving Up, Reality, Decision

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• When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.

  Michelle Obama

  President, Reform, Care

  "Michelle Obama touts husband's humble roots, asks for time to see 'change' through", www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2012.

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• When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

  Suze Orman

  Heart, Giving, Easy

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• To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, Mean, Fighting

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• I’ve been thinking,” he said. “Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.

  John Barnes

  Teacher, Thinking, Easy

  John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.295, Penguin

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• Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Civilization

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.229, Diversion Books

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• It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

  David Levithan

  Easy, Persons, Knows

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

  Kami Garcia

  Life, Inspire, Beautiful Creatures

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